Before Starting!! Right in the middle of Tokyo, Japan you will find what just might be Tokyo's Coolest Shrine. The only ...

Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that ... (two stops south of Kyoto Station). There is also a city bus stop located at the shrine.

In the dark of night, completely empty, we explore the gates of Kyoto's Fushimi inari Shrine. While its famously said to have 10,000 torii gates that wind up the mountain, the real number is north of ...

The Imperial Messenger (Chokushi) views the Aoi festival horse-racing from this building. KAMIGAMO SHRINE: The Kamo Shrines (Kamigamo and Shimogamo) are among the most important in Kyoto. Kamigamo ...

It was a little more than 25 years ago that I first walked the streets of Gion, the centuries-old geisha district of Kyoto ... thousands of red torii gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine that led ...

Situated on Otowa Mountain in eastern Kyoto, Kiyomizu-dera Temple wows travelers ... Also within in the complex is the Jishu Shrine, a red-lacquered temple dedicated to Okuninushi-no-mikoto ...

KYOTO--Geisha scattered roasted soybeans to exorcise “evil spirits” and bring good fortune in the year ahead during a traditional event held at Yasakajinja shrine here. Geisha and “maiko” ...